Hermione Hoby 

Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be

Scuzzy guitars and sugar-sweet harmonies could make this the soundtrack of your summer, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


Riding the garage band revival with what they term "blissed out buzzsaw", these California girls began as one lady, Dee Dee, whose possible references for her then solo-project's name include Iggy Pop ("Dum Dum Boys") and Talk Talk ("Dum Dum Girl"). Suitably then, theirs is a retrograde sound: their first LP overlays scuzzy guitars with 60s girl-group harmonies as they rattle through 11 near-perfect pop songs about teen heartache and stints in the county jail. Heavy on the reverb but light of heart, they're worthy contenders for the soundtrack of your summer.

 

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